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Clean up the HTTP inline docs to reflect the times. props jacobsantos, fixes #12882. 

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nacin 2010-04-10 11:23:21 +00:00
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@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
/**
* Simple and uniform HTTP request API.
*
* Will eventually replace and standardize the WordPress HTTP requests made.
* Standardizes the HTTP requests for WordPress. Handles cookies, gzip encoding and decoding, chunk
* decoding, if HTTP 1.1 and various other difficult HTTP protocol implementations.
*
* @link http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4779 HTTP API Proposal
*
@ -14,12 +15,9 @@
/**
* WordPress HTTP Class for managing HTTP Transports and making HTTP requests.
*
* This class is called for the functionality of making HTTP requests and should replace Snoopy
* functionality, eventually. There is no available functionality to add HTTP transport
* implementations, since most of the HTTP transports are added and available for use.
*
* The exception is that cURL is not available as a transport and lacking an implementation. It will
* be added later and should be a patch on the WordPress Trac.
* This class is called for the functionality of making HTTP requests and replaces Snoopy
* functionality. There is no available functionality to add HTTP transport implementations, since
* most of the HTTP transports are added and available for use.
*
* There are no properties, because none are needed and for performance reasons. Some of the
* functions are static and while they do have some overhead over functions in PHP4, the purpose is
@ -52,11 +50,10 @@ class WP_Http {
/**
* PHP5 style Constructor - Set up available transport if not available.
*
* PHP4 does not have the 'self' keyword and since WordPress supports PHP4,
* the class needs to be used for the static call.
*
* The transport are set up to save time. This should only be called once, so
* the overhead should be fine.
* PHP4 does not have the 'self' keyword and since WordPress supports PHP4, the class needs to
* be used for the static call. The transport are set up to save time and will only be created
* once. This class can be created many times without having to go through the step of finding
* which transports are available.
*
* @since 2.7.0
* @return WP_Http
@ -69,20 +66,18 @@ class WP_Http {
/**
* Tests the WordPress HTTP objects for an object to use and returns it.
*
* Tests all of the objects and returns the object that passes. Also caches
* that object to be used later.
* Tests all of the objects and returns the object that passes. Also caches that object to be
* used later.
*
* The order for the GET/HEAD requests are HTTP Extension, cURL, Streams, Fopen,
* and finally Fsockopen. fsockopen() is used last, because it has the most
* overhead in its implementation. There isn't any real way around it, since
* redirects have to be supported, much the same way the other transports
* also handle redirects.
* The order for the GET/HEAD requests are HTTP Extension, cURL, Streams, Fopen, and finally
* Fsockopen. fsockopen() is used last, because it has the most overhead in its implementation.
* There isn't any real way around it, since redirects have to be supported, much the same way
* the other transports also handle redirects.
*
* There are currently issues with "localhost" not resolving correctly with
* DNS. This may cause an error "failed to open stream: A connection attempt
* failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a
* period of time, or established connection failed because connected host
* has failed to respond."
* There are currently issues with "localhost" not resolving correctly with DNS. This may cause
* an error "failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did
* not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because [the]
* connected host has failed to respond."
*
* @since 2.7.0
* @access private